Kitchen cabinet



CV. MAHONEY.

KITCHEN CABINET.

' APPLICATIONFILED SEPT-9, 1921;

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Be it known that I, CLARENon Marionnr, a citizen of the United States,residing at Elwood in the county of Madison and State ofl'ndiana, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in a Kitchen Cabinet;

and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription'of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The object of the invention isto provide a simple and efficientconstruction of kitchen cabinet, with special reference to the maincompartment of the super-structure designed for the reception andhousing of those articles which are required for convenience to bearranged adjacent to the working table or top of the device in thepreparation of food for cooking and the like; and more especially toprovide in connection with such a compartment a closure which whilebeing capable of manipulation without inconvenience occupies the minimumofspace, does not obstruct the table or top of the cabinet, whether openor closed, may readily be removed for cleansing purposes, may beprepared independently of the cabinet proper and inserted in completedform thereinto and which when open exposes the entire front of thecompartment to give access to all parts from the front; and with thesegeneral objects in view the invention consists in a construction andcombination of parts of which a preferred embodiment is shown in thedrawings, wherein:

Figure 1 is a perspective View of a cabinet constructed in accordancewith the in vention.

Figure 2 is a vertical sectional view of the same, taken through themain compartment of the super-structure and showing the parts in closedor normal position.

Figure 3 is a similar view of the upper portion or super-structure ofthe cabinet.

The cabinet used in the drawing as'an illustration of the invention madein general form correspond with those now in common use so far as havinga base or pedestal section 10 and an upper section or superstructure 11of a depth, measured front and rear, which is less than the baseorpedestal section with a table or top 12 covering the base or pedestalsection and extending for- Specification of Letters Patent. Patent d pl2.3 1922 0 Application filed September i e, 1921. Serial No. 499,394.

ward in advance of the front of the superstructure or upper section toafford a working surface for the operator in preparing food for cookingor serving. Moreover the baseor pedestal section may be subdivided ntocompartments having for example a door 13 and a series of tiered drawers14: with auxiliary drawers 15 arranged immediately beneath the table ortopjwhile the upper section or super-structure likewise may beof'compartmental construction having the vertical side compartment 16and a top compartment 17 fitted with hinged doors or any equivalentthereof.

The main compartment 18 of the upper section or super-structure, whichis disposed horizontally and is of an extent approximating that of thetable or top of the main or base section, and which compartment usuallyis employed to contain those articles which are used more or lesscontinuously in the preparation of food either for'cooking or serviceand hence which ordinarily should be kept open during the use of the topor table by the operator, is provided with a roller door 18 of flexibleconstruction having transverse elements 19 connected by a flexiblebacking 20,the edges of said door being fitted in vertical andhorizontal guides 21 and 22 formed in the facing surfaces of the sidewalls of the compartment and with a marginal strip or bar 22 forming thefront or lower edge of the door. 7

The rear ends of the guide slots 20 are curved forward as shown at 20 toreceive the rear edge of the door when raised or opened as indicated inFigure 3, to the end that when the door is open it is entirely housedwithin the compartment and is out of the way, to give access to thecompartment throughout the entire front area there of, said door byreason of this position leaving the top or table of the cabinet entirelyunobstructed for the use of the operator.

Communicating with the upper guide grooves 22 are the upwardly andforwardly directed outlet grooves 23 through which the flexible door maybe withdrawn when it is desired to remove the same from the cabinet, itbeing obvious that by such re moval the cleansing of the interior of thecabinet and of the door is facilitated and furthermore said door may becompletely constructed before applying it to and independently of thecabinet as a means of reducing the cost of manufacture.

Above the horizontal guide grooves 'are arranged guide grooves 2a withwhich the outlet grooves 23 also communicate, and a drawer 25 designedfor use for example as a silver ware drawer is provided with side ribs26 to engage said grooves and thus operate above the plane of the door,the front edge or facing of the drawer being provided with a dependinglip or skirt 26 depending into overlapping relation with the upper edgeof the roller door and having a beveled rear surface 27. The guide ribson the end walls of the silver ware drawer by filling the grooves 24:serve to prevent the displacement of the roller door while the drawer isin place while permitting the opening and closing of said door to giveaccess to the compartment.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim is A cabinet having acompartment fitted with a roller door, the side walls of the compartmentbeing provided with communicating substantially horizontal andsubstantially vertical guide grooves and the door consistin of aplurality of roller bars terminally fitted for movement in said grooves,outlet grooves being provided in communicationwith said horizontalgrooves for permitting the removal of the door from its guides, andsupplemental'guides arranged above the plane of said horizontal guidesand in communication with the outlet groove, in combination I with asliding drawer having ribs fitted in said supplemental guides forclosing the interval between the upper edge of the roller door and thetop of the cabinet.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.g

CLARENCE MAHONEYQ W'itnesses: v

HENRY W. BERTRAM, ERNEST DANIELS.

